Sri Lanka, June 23 -- Ethnic and religious polarisation have been spreading in South Asia and afar in recent decades. Sadly, sections of the intelligentsia and the clergy have also been fuelling divisive nationalist forces and xenophobia.
A welcome counter to this trend are Bishop Duleep de Chickera's thoughtful and inspiring reflections compiled in Water is for All, which raise difficult questions about Sri Lanka's past and the challenges facing its future.
In the spirit of de Chickera's work, one could claim history is for all. History should not be the captive of historians, including with their periodisation of war and post-war, and the privileging of acts by the powerful; rather, history flows with various ideological currents and na...